Title

Pump-Resonant Excitation Of The 946-Nm Nd-Yag Laser

Authors

Authors

J. P. Cuthbertson;G. J. Dixon

Comments

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Abbreviated Journal Title

Opt. Lett.

Keywords

ROOM-TEMPERATURE; CONTINUOUS-WAVE; DIODE; GENERATION; EMISSION; Optics

Abstract

Pump-resonant excitation, in which a weakly absorbing gain medium is placed inside an optical cavity that is resonant at both the pump and laser wavelengths, is shown to reduce significantly the losses due to saturable absorption in a quasi-three-level, diode-pumped laser. Initial experiments, in which this technique is applied to the 946-nm Nd:YAG laser, have yielded incident threshold power levels below 1.3 mW and optical slope efficiencies exceeding 25%.

Journal Title

Optics Letters

Volume

16

Issue/Number

6

Publication Date

1-1-1991

Document Type

Article

DOI Link

http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/ol.16.000396

Language

English

First Page

396

Last Page

398

WOS Identifier

WOS:A1991FA22200016

ISSN

0146-9592

Recommended Citation

"Pump-Resonant Excitation Of The 946-Nm Nd-Yag Laser" (1991). Faculty Bibliography 1990s. 214.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/facultybib1990/214